{"id":3404,"date":"2015-10-12T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/?page_id=3404"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:01:06","slug":"blind-contour-drawing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.toadhollowstudio.com\/wp_blog\/blind-contour-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Contour Drawing – Drawing By Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blind Contour Drawing Of Three Onions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Believe it or not, drawing is about touch as much as it is about seeing. Your eyes see the subject while your hand moves the pencil, mimicking the lines and curves the eyes see.<\/p>\n

Blind contour drawing is done by drawing the outline of a subject without looking at the paper, and concentrating on how the hand needs to move to do that.<\/p>\n

If you\u00a0don’t use your body to feel the lines, you become disconnected from the drawing, and your logical brain takes over. It tells you what the subject “should” look like and how you should draw it. This never ends well.<\/p>\n

Too see what I mean, make a quick sketch of a tree. Then take a Dry Erase Marker to a window and trace the trunk and some branches of a real tree. The actual tree outline will probably be much more organic and detailed than yours. When you were tracing, you weren’t thinking about how to make the lines, you just moved the marker along the tree lines using sight and touch. That’s the feeling\/touch blind contour drawing strengthens.<\/p>\n

Before And After A Blind Contour Drawing Warm-Up<\/h3>\n